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No water! No toilets! No lunch! No Electricity!

 
/ May 22, 2014

268 children have had no access to clean drinking water, clean toilets, hygienic food or electricity for the last four years!  This has adversely affected their education and general health.  Imagine going to a school where you don’t get water to drink, electricity to see, toilets to relieve yourself and...

Blocked drains = Airborne Diseases

 
/ May 21, 2014

How would you feel if you had to drain out buckets full of dirty drain water from your courtyard everyday? It sounds disgusting right? VV-PACS Correspondent Satyendra Kumar investigates how the blocked drainage system in Badagaon village, Mau district, Ratanpura block, Uttar Pradesh is making life difficult for it 150...

200 Residents 0 Toilets

 
/ May 20, 2014

According to The National Sample Survey (NSS) 59.4 per cent of India’s rural homes defecate in the open. This is despite the fact that the government runs schemes like the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and has borne an expenditure of 19,626 crore INR ($4.3 billion) in the last 10 years. VV-PACS...

Old Problem: Old Age Pension

 
/ May 16, 2014

The Indian Government’s National Pension System is an on going saga of another ineffective government policy. One example is Pramila Devi in Ahimachak village, Katihar district, Bihar who is not receiving her right to old age pension.   VV PACS Community Correspondent Navita Devi interviews the 70 year old pensioner...

Indira Awaas Scheme fails yet again.

 
/ May 16, 2014

The Indira Awaas (Housing) Scheme is a 1985 Indian government initiated social welfare program created to provide housing for the rural underprivileged in India.  Rampatti Devi from village Ambai Bujurg, district Kausambi, Uttar Pradesh is one of 200 Dalit people who has not been receiving the benefits of this scheme....

Corrupt Village Head declared alive old age pensioner dead

 
/ May 15, 2014

The Indian Government launched the National Pension System scheme with high hopes but it has failed to deliver as expected.One such case is Pakhandu Yadav from Patel Nagar, Munari village, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh who was denied his pension for not paying a bribe to the Village Head.   The Village Head...

Give us our right to shelter

 
/ May 13, 2014

200 families in Uttar Pradesh are being forced to live without proper houses. All that stands between them and safe shelter is one ignorant Village Head. VV-PACS Correspondent Shabnam reports on the situation with the hope that you will hold the errant Village Head accountable for his lapses in getting...

4 Teachers for 1500 Students in Uttar Pradesh Government School

 
/ May 13, 2014

VV-PACS Correspondent Sanjay Kumar reports from Maharaj Ganj, Uttar Pradesh regarding the lack of adequate education for girls in the Government Inter-College Nautanawa. He says that the government is not doing its job to provide enough trained teachers to teach the students. Currently only four teachers teach 1500 girls who...